Over New Year's weekend, TogaDude announced that he was planning to self-immolate on January 3rd at an IRS building in South Carolina. Here are some excerpts from his blog:
RBC: Jan 3: Chapman grabbed by Police and Shrinks
A few blocks from the IRS Office and a few minutes before the demand time, Gene’s pickup-camper was stopped by a dozen police and he was placed in an ambulance. More details later.
I went by city-county jail at noon and he was not there. Apparently he was in the ER waiting shipment to mental hospital and mental examination. He should be back out in 1 to 3 months. Probably, the police had a commitment order from the Judge. Many Patriots showed up to see The American Gandhi mess up the irs parking lot but he did not show. Afterwards we did not go to a BBQ joint because so many people objected.
Press Release: 1 Jan 05 Contact Gene Chapman
For Immediate Release www.slavefreedom.com
Gene Chapman, the American Gandhi, will martyr himself in front of the IRS office in Greenville SC on Roper Mt Rd, off I-385, on Monday at 10am. The press is invited. Gene's last meeting and prayer service was held Saturday at 1pm in Greenville at Carolina Patriots monthly meeting.
This is the regular monthly meeting of the CarolinaPatriots, a Constitution Study Group based in Greenville for almost 30 years. www.patriotnetwork.info
Gene told Robert Clarkson, the President of CarolinaPatriots, that God told him to do this. "Gene has presented reasonable requests to the tax collectors but they are forcing him to depart this earth with a bang." See his blog at www.slavefreedom.com
Gene is unable to obtain employment due to relinquishing his Social Security Number based on his Christian belief that it is the mark of the beast. The Internal Revenue Code requires employers to ask for a SSN and notify the IRS if the employee refuses. No actual law requires a company to secure a SSN. The American Gandhi has requested the IRS to furnish a written statement to that effect.
Gene has perpetuated several hunger strikes against the IRS in Washington, D.C. and in Texas, and the tax collectors capitulated. Chapman was a student at Bible College at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Greenville. Years ago Gene and Bob Jones of BJU achieved world wide media attention with their billboards concerning the Pope's visit to Columbia S.C.
And here was what he planned to read on the steps of the IRS:
Flee The Wrath Of God To Come.
When I was a little boy, all the preachers within and without my family told me that when the social security number transforms from being a benign number dealing with the Social Security Administration to being an all inclusive control number over every aspect of life, "Get away from it!"
Since September 11, 2001, I have seen this transformation, such that Federal and State laws now mandate proof of a social security number just to renew a commercial driver's license, for example. Bank accounts, credit cards, everything is now tied to the social security number.
As a Christian who fears the 'wine of the wrath of God' (Revelation 14:10) for utilizing a government imposed control number on my ability to "sell" (Revelation 13:17) my labor, I can no longer use a social security number.
For two months in South Carolina, I have sought employment and been outright refused or turned down suspiciously a half-a-dozen times over my polite religious refusal to use a social security number. My savings is now gone, and I now demand from the IRS an answer in writing:
1) Must I have a social security number to have a job and get paid by an average employer in the United States?
2) Will the U.S. Government defend my religious requirement not to have or utilize a social security number when employers refuse me employment because of my lack of a social security number?
The EEOC and the Social Security Administration directed me to the IRS and an IRS ruling of July, 2003 for an answer. The IRS has not responded, and I am dying economically for lack of clarification.
Thus, the IRS will provide me in writing either the answers to my two questions by 10:30 a.m. today or written assurance of a written response to the questions within seventy-two hours, or I shall be forced to take my life at 10:30 a.m. in the IRS parking lot this morning.
Since he had actually sent out a press release days prior to the planned public suicide, and advertised it daily on his blog, it was no surprise to anyone when the cops stopped him on his way to the IRS, and shipped him off to a local psychiatric hospital.
Of course, the lunatics he runs around with put a rather unique spin on this by posting a claim that stated "Christian Minister Gene Chapman Arrested For Living". Um, yeah.
Now, before anybody starts feeling sorry for this guy, let me explain something. He didn't turn in his social security card because of a religious belief. He did it because that's how the IRS was tracking his employment, and they had levied his paycheck because for years he filed fraudulent tax returns. No one has been able to confirm his claims about Bible College or his billboard campaign against the Pope. The IRS has never "capitulated" to his "death fasts". Quite the opposite, in fact. They finally got sick and tired of dealing with his constant bullshit - including saying that the parents of IRS employees were going to hell for raising evil children - and attached his paycheck.
He's not quite such a sympathetic character when you know the truth, is he? That's just part of it. Check the rest of this blog for more TogaDude nonsense.
What was very surprising was that some people had gone there to see a guy set himself on fire, and were so disappointed when it didn't happen that they cancelled their planned lunch at a local barbeque joint.
What kind of person watches a man die a horrible, painful, gruesome death by fire, then eats barbeque? I think Gene's not the only they should have shipped off to the nuthouse.
Gene sent several audioblogs in which he stated that he was converting everyone at the hospital to his way of thinking. He even claimed that the psychiatrist would become a tax protester. Those dreams were shattered when, instead of releasing him as he had assumed they would do, he was shipped off for extended treatment at the state psychiatric hospital. He continued to claim that the psychiatrist at the state hospital was also on board with his beliefs "except the self-immolation stuff".
I think it's more along the lines of not ticking off the crazy guy until you know just how dangerous he really is.
Then suddenly, no one heard from Gene for a while. I'd guess the doctor found out he was still posting his lunacy to the internet via audioblogs, because when he finally did emerge again he said that his phone privileges had been suspended. Since then, he has been sending letters to some guy, who then posts them to TogaDude's blog.
That's when it gets scary. See, a warrant has been issued for TogaDude's arrest. The charge is "reckless endangerment", a criminal offense. It seems that he had a leaking propane line on his RV, discovered the same day he was planning to self-immolate. Is it possible that he planned to blow up the RV? No one can say for sure, but it's certainly within the realm of possibility.
So, what did the doctors have to say about this guy?
The doctors diagnosed me with "Delusional Thinking" because I've dared to dream the impossible dream - The End of the IRS with the self immolation tactic.
They diagnosed me as "narcissistic" because I believe I can change the world and should have the right to see that change.
They diagnosed me as "depressed" because I've fought so many years to get the IRS to respond to my question: "Do I have an income tax liability, and where is it?"
My overall IQ has been tested at "average".
So a guy who plans to set himself on fire in the belief that it will bring the federal government crashing down is a delusional narcissist with an IQ of "average". I think their IQ test must be wrong, since he obviously should have tested at the level of "frickin' 'tard".
If the doctors are right in their diagnosis, it's altogether possible that he did plan to blow up that RV and harm other people. Narcissists are unable to consider others, they can only think of themselves. They're pretty sick puppies. Other narcissists have included Jim Jones of the People's Temple mass suicide and the infamous Charles Manson. Not all narcissists are that dangerous, but some of them are. Of course, delusionals live in a world the rest of us don't see, so they're altogether unpredictable. TogaDude might be quite dangerous, considering what he threatened to do and what they found when they stopped him and took him to the hospital.
TogaDude claims that he didn't even know he had a propane tank. That's interesting, considering that he's a truck driver by trade and had owned the RV for about four years. He was even living in it at the time of this fiasco. He later changed that story by saying he had checked it many times, but there had never been any propane in it. Well, which is it? Did he not know there was a propane tank, or did he check it regularly? Something stinks here, and it's not the propane leaking out of the tank either.
He also claims that what the cops smelled was not propane, but some newly-stained lumber he had kept in the back of his RV several days prior. I do realize that "stain" and "propane" rhyme, but that doesn't mean they smell even remotely alike. Incidentally, the newly stained lumber belonged to his minister, who was one of the people who came to the IRS to see him kill himself. What the hell kind of minister is that?
He now also claims that he never planned to set himself on fire, but only slit his wrists. Interesting, considering that he mentioned self-immolation numerous times, once even referring to walking into the IRS carrying a match and wearing "gasoline cologne". He never mentioned slitting his wrists at the IRS until after the warrant was issued.
Okay, so this is where it gets funny again. He now claims that his desire to self-immolate was due to not having any dates with women. Yet he seems oblivious to the fact that he had no dates with women because he's a freak who wears a toga.
He also says that due to a diagnosis of "dysthmia", he will have to go on social security disability. Hey, wait a minute - I thought the social security number was the "Mark of the Beast"? Apparently not, at least when he can make a buck off it.
Just for reference, "dysthmia" is a low-grade depression. No one gets disability for dysthmia. Lots of people have it and don't even know it. They work and take care of their families, but just don't enjoy life as much as they could.
He also says the doctor stated he might have "a small touch of bipolar". Um, there's no such thing as a "small touch of bipolar". Either you're bipolar, or you're not.
Then again, TogaDude is not known for telling the truth, as I've pointed out many times previously in this blog. He lives in his own little world. He's not necessarily crazy, but he's definitely not sane. He even said that the doctor told him about a week ago that he may not have anything wrong with him at all. I seriously doubt the doctor said that, considering that he's still under an involuntary commitment order.
In the meantime, he thinks the IRS will come to the psych hospital and talk to him about his tax problems. I just don't see that happening.
At any rate, it looks like TogaDude will be in the psych hospital for a while. That's probably a good thing. The last thing we need is yet another mental case going around blowing things up and setting themselves on fire.
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